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Honduras is strongly anti-Communist, maintains no diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, and has provided vital support for United States-backed rebels fighting to overthrow the Sandinistas in neighboring Nicaragua. Stephen Kinzer

Fighting Relations Neighboring Vital Diplomatic Diplomatic Relations Strongly Support Provided Overthrow Soviet Soviet Union Nicaragua Union Rebels United Honduras

When superpower countries like the United States and the former Soviet Union contemplated moving their conflicts to outer space, there was justifiable fear and dread. Steven Levy

Fear Space States Dread Outer Outer Space Superpower Countries Contemplated Like Soviet Soviet Union Conflicts Former Moving Union United United States

At present, England, America, France, Italy, and Japan constitute the so-called 'Big Five.' Even with the rise of Germany and Soviet Russia, the world has only seven Powers. When China becomes strong, she can easily win first place in the Council of Nations. Sun Yat-sen

World Strong Win First Big Seven France Easily Constitute Russia Rise Only Council Powers She First Place Becomes Italy Five Germany America Soviet Nations So-Called Place China Japan England Even Present

After the Cold War ended, there was an agreement between the former Soviet Union and America to convert weapons-grade nuclear materials into reactor-grade materials. So disarmament and nuclear energy actually are strongly linked. Susan Eisenhower

No book about Soviet sacrifice was as strong as the women's stories I heard as a child. Svetlana Alexievich

Women Book Strong Sacrifice About Heard Child Soviet Stories

Women are the most denigrated social group in the Soviet Union. The idea of women's emancipation is only a slogan in - but also, I should say, in many places outside - the Soviet Union. But especially in the militaristic Soviet society, people only thought of life in terms of struggle and the workers' toil. Svetlana Alexievich

Life Struggle Women People Thought Group Society Say Emancipation Slogan Only Outside Idea Most Terms Also Women Are Soviet Soviet Union Places Social Workers Should Social Group Toil Union Many

I was in my early 20s when Estonia joined the E.U. For a kid who'd grown up in the Soviet Union, it seemed like my country had come of age. For a country that had been isolated and cut off from the rest of the world, it seemed like we were becoming part of the global community. It opened a whole new world of possibility. Taavet Hinrikus

Age World Rest Country Community Kid Possibility Seemed Joined Had Part Opened New Come Like Global Becoming Isolated Were Been Off Up Soviet Soviet Union New World Estonia Cut Union Whole Whole New World Grown Grown-Up Early Early 20s

Instead of more talk about salmon and high-speed rails, more criticism of the Supreme Court or more praise for the Soviet's Sputnik mission - President Obama should use his State of the Union Address to tell the American people the truth about the fundamental financial challenges our country faces. Tim Griffin

Truth Challenges People Financial Criticism Country President State Our President Obama Address Tell Obama About Faces More High-Speed Instead Mission Talk Supreme Supreme Court Court Praise His Salmon American Soviet American People Should Use Union Fundamental Rails

I remember starting to read about the Soviet Union when I was eight years old; I think I was reading my father's 'New York Times.' Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Remember Old Father Reading Think About New Read Years Times York Soviet Soviet Union New York Eight New York Times Union Starting

From the days of biplanes and silk scarves, the aviator has been the archetype of masculine glamour. Aviators have personified national ideals, from French elan to Soviet party discipline. They've inspired lust and admiration. They've turned sunglasses and short, utilitarian leather jackets into fashion statements. Virginia Postrel

Fashion Discipline Party National Lust Statements Has-Been Sunglasses Admiration Silk Inspired Glamour Masculine Days Ideals French Leather Been Jackets Soviet Short Turned Utilitarian

Frankly speaking, I decided to become a businessman at the moment when I understood that it is possible, because I grew up in a country where it was not possible. There existed even a special article in the penal code of the Soviet Union which punished entrepreneurial activity. Vladimir Potanin

Country Become Punished Frankly Possible Entrepreneurial Because Understood Existed Up Article Soviet Soviet Union Where Grew Decided Which Speaking Special Moment Union Businessman Even Code Activity

Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided any direct clash between our civilians and, most certainly, between our military. Vladimir Putin

War Military Cold Cold War Our States Clash Direct Civilians Between Most Always Years Intense Soviet Any Soviet Union Confrontation Certainly Avoided Union Even United United States

In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state's role absolute. In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated. Vladimir Putin

Few people understand the magnitude of the catastrophe that happened late in the 1980s when the Communist Party had failed to modernize the Soviet Union. Vladimir Putin

People Party Few Late Magnitude Had Catastrophe Failed Understand Few People Soviet Soviet Union Happened Modernize Communist Communist Party Union

Competition and competitive rhetoric can be healthy. It's what drove the United States to pursue the Soviet Union into space, creating countless innovations along the way. Wendy Kopp

Competition Space Healthy Innovations Way States Pursue Countless Drove Along Soviet Soviet Union Rhetoric Creating Union United United States Competitive

In the 1950s, Pakistan allied with the United States in something called the Central Treaty Organization. We were lined up with, at that time, Iran, ruled by the Shah, and Pakistan and Turkey as a southward shield against Soviet expansion toward the warm waters of the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf. It was part of the containment strategy. Wesley Clark

Time Organization Ocean Strategy Waters Ruled States Gulf Indian Something Allied Part Toward Shield Were Lined Iran Up Persian Expansion Persian Gulf Soviet Central Against Turkey Warm Pakistan United United States Treaty

I am into drones and one chord freak outs and the paintings I am into are more minimal things the New York colour field painters and the soviet schools of the early/mid 20th century suprematism and constructionism. Will Sergeant

Field Minimal Freak More Colour Drones New Schools Am York Soviet New York Century Painters Chord Paintings Things

The case of Afghanistan vs. the Soviet Union is the clearest case of good against evil that I've seen in my lifetime. I thought it was terrific the way they got their country back. William T. Vollmann

Good Evil Thought Seen Country Back Way Case Lifetime Clearest Terrific Got Soviet Soviet Union Afghanistan Against Union

In Soviet times, the border was closed, so we couldn't get out of the country, and I had been reading Robinson Crusoe. I wanted to see the ocean, I wanted to see boats, I wanted to see black people, because we didn't have that in the Soviet Union. I was all excited by that stuff. Wladimir Klitschko

I lived with my parents in Belarus, and I went to Russian kindergarten, which is where I learned Russian. Belarus had just become an independent country; there was no food in the supermarkets, so it looked very post-war, very Soviet. Yung Lean

Food Parents Country Become Independent Post-War Kindergarten Russian Had Looked Learned Very Soviet Just Where Which Lived

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